June 18, 2021 Coats Museum News
Wanda Pollard continued to write about the happenings in the Coats area through her “Social Notes from Coats” in the July, 1987 editions of the Daily Record. It was written that Becky and Linwood Carroll announced the engagement of their daughter, Sandra Lynn Carroll, to Tony Keith Beasley of Benson. Wanda also shared that several families had lost loved one to death. Among those families she expressed sympathy to be the families of Troy Williams and Emma Catherine Raynor.
Wanda also wrote that the weather was unusually hot and both farmers and gardeners were hoping for rain to save the plant life. However, it seemed that Tony Upchurch was having good luck with his town garden. He apparently had time for his gardening as well as doing his job as the Driver’s License Examiner. According to Wanda, Tony also had time to help his wife Ruth with the shelling of peas and beans.
Vel Davis, employee of the First Citizens Bank, was recuperating from eye surgery, while David Stevens had been in and out of the hospitals since the beginning of the year. Louise Williams’ father, Junie Horne, was a patient at Cape Fear Valley Hospital with a broken hip. Debbie Honeycutt Turlington was returning home after giving birth to Kathryn Anne Turlington. Wonder how excited her brother Kyle was to have a baby sister in the household. Kent’s parents were Graham and Effie Turlington and Debbie’s were Rupert and Gerry Honeycutt.
Wayne and Sherry Royal enjoyed a vacation to Topsail Beach with their three daughters- Elizabeth, Magan and Ashley. Were they relaxing after the Golden Anniversary of Sherry’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Byrd? Sherry reported that her favorite part of the celebration was the trip the anniversary couple took on a horse drawn surrey from their first marriage home to Erwin Chapel Church where they first attended services in their early years of marriage.
A family gathering was held at the home of Cortez and Mary Ross Hough Williams to honor the 84th birthday of Carl Hough. Others there for the occasion were Bobby and Joyce Stewart, Mrs. Gladys Hough Tyndall and her son- Jimmy Tyndall and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nabors of Fayetteville. Many out of state guests were present.
Another family gathering was held by the Wilmoth family in South Boston, Virginia. Mrs. Clyda Wilmoth of Coats and her family attending were Mrs. Gloria W. Hough, Rosalie W. Sharp, Mrs. Mary Etta W. Williams, and Mrs. Becky W. Taylor and her son Chad. I can’t go into the Belks store in Dunn and not miss Becky’s husband, Earl Taylor. He was the sunshine of that store.
Anniversaries seemed to be a part of every column that Wanda wrote. Happy wishes went to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Carlie Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ray Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Parrish, and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Campbell.
Birthday wishes were extended to Sally Dorman, Gloria Hough, Carletta Ennis, Joyce Stewart, Mark Byrd, Hobart Lamm, Wallace Penny, Verle Flowers, Wayne Royal, Katie Dorman, Della Pleasant, Tonya Stewart, Sybil Pope, Don Ennis, and Renee Tart (Daily Record July 20, 1987).
Harold Lloyd, Harnett County Extension Agent, was in the Terry Ennis’s tobacco field as they looked over that year’s crop. The CCAC recruited 93 new members in a contest during a membership drive. The winning team members were Judy Turlington, captain of Team A and who also won a trip to the Bahamas; Mike Parham also won a trip to the Bahamas. Other members on Team A were Sue Penny, Ann Jones and C.J. Johnson. Team B members were Captain Tim Brown, M.T. Strickland (recipient of a $100 US Savings Bond), Patsy Joyner, Glenda Denton, and M.O. Phillips. An added bonus to winning was that the losing team had to serve dinner to the winning members at Pope’s Barn (Daily Record July 24, 1987).
Wanda Pollard’s Notes from Coats in the July 27, 1987 edition of the Daily Record reported sympathy of Mrs. Vicky Byrd Glover at the death of her father, Bryant Byrd of Erwin. Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Avery who lived on Route One Coats, celebrated their 55th Wedding Anniversary. They had three children,son -Ronald and daughters-Faye Dunbar and Helen Gomedella.
Joseph A. Lee, Jr. had retired from Womack Hospital at Fort Bragg, NC where he was a Pharmacist Technician for 13 years. Joe had worked for 25 years at McKnight’s Drug Co. in Coats before going to Womack.
Congratulations were sent to several couples for new babies. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coats brought home a little girl-Ashley Nicole Coats. Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Slaughter had a new baby boy while Mr. and Mrs. Richard Randall Bonner had a little girl. Mr. and Mrs. Fernie Lee were proud of their new great-grandson.
Birthday wishes went to Chester Ennis, Mark Pope, Ann Jones, Earl Barnes, Harry Denton, Walter Barnes, Rev. Ralph Byrd and Ellis Byrd. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Colville, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Coats and Mrs. Roy Langdon celebrated anniversaries. The July 31, 1987 notes printed that Kitty Willis and Howard Smith had died.
Mrs. Esther A. Cobb celebrated her birthday at the home of her daughter, Ruth Upchurch, and husband Tony Upchurch. About 34 guests attended the event for Mrs. Cobb. Would you have liked to know some of those who attended? I bet her daughter, Mrs. Clara Cobb Barbour, was there. Covid robbed us of Clara who was approaching one hundred years of age and looked almost half of that. Not only was Clara a lovely lady but one of the most talented seamstresses around. She and Wynona Ennis decorated many dozens of houses throughout Harnett and Johnston Counties with their sewing skills.
Do ladies gather today for “quilting bees”? I remember my mom going to ones at Mrs. Leva Johnson Pope’s house across the woods from our house. Leva was niece of my Grandfather Ben F. Johnson. Leva’s parents had died when she was a young girl and my grandparents –Ben and Alice -took Leva to grow up with my dad and his siblings. She would later marry Joe Ben Pope and raise some outstanding children of her own.
An old-fashioned “quilting bee” was held at the home of Mary Stevens. The ladies gathering to help quilt were Mary Langdon, Mary Denning, Florine Penny, Eula Stancil, Rebeth Mitchell, Hazel Barnes, Frances Langdon, Irene Barefoot and Lina Williams. Wonder what happened to that quilt and if Greg, Doug and Danny played under the quilt while the ladies quilted and shared neighborhood happenings?
I do know that Coats and the surrounding area have lost so many citizens to death during the pandemic. Fleming Norris was the good natured gentleman who helped out at the Miller’s NAPA store where he touched the lives of those he delivered merchandize to their homes or businesses. H.L considered Fleming a good friend and is honored to memorialize Fleming Norris with a donation to the Coats Museum.
Wanda Pollard continued to write about the happenings in the Coats area through her “Social Notes from Coats” in the July, 1987 editions of the Daily Record. It was written that Becky and Linwood Carroll announced the engagement of their daughter, Sandra Lynn Carroll, to Tony Keith Beasley of Benson. Wanda also shared that several families had lost loved one to death. Among those families she expressed sympathy to be the families of Troy Williams and Emma Catherine Raynor.
Wanda also wrote that the weather was unusually hot and both farmers and gardeners were hoping for rain to save the plant life. However, it seemed that Tony Upchurch was having good luck with his town garden. He apparently had time for his gardening as well as doing his job as the Driver’s License Examiner. According to Wanda, Tony also had time to help his wife Ruth with the shelling of peas and beans.
Vel Davis, employee of the First Citizens Bank, was recuperating from eye surgery, while David Stevens had been in and out of the hospitals since the beginning of the year. Louise Williams’ father, Junie Horne, was a patient at Cape Fear Valley Hospital with a broken hip. Debbie Honeycutt Turlington was returning home after giving birth to Kathryn Anne Turlington. Wonder how excited her brother Kyle was to have a baby sister in the household. Kent’s parents were Graham and Effie Turlington and Debbie’s were Rupert and Gerry Honeycutt.
Wayne and Sherry Royal enjoyed a vacation to Topsail Beach with their three daughters- Elizabeth, Magan and Ashley. Were they relaxing after the Golden Anniversary of Sherry’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. Ralph Byrd? Sherry reported that her favorite part of the celebration was the trip the anniversary couple took on a horse drawn surrey from their first marriage home to Erwin Chapel Church where they first attended services in their early years of marriage.
A family gathering was held at the home of Cortez and Mary Ross Hough Williams to honor the 84th birthday of Carl Hough. Others there for the occasion were Bobby and Joyce Stewart, Mrs. Gladys Hough Tyndall and her son- Jimmy Tyndall and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nabors of Fayetteville. Many out of state guests were present.
Another family gathering was held by the Wilmoth family in South Boston, Virginia. Mrs. Clyda Wilmoth of Coats and her family attending were Mrs. Gloria W. Hough, Rosalie W. Sharp, Mrs. Mary Etta W. Williams, and Mrs. Becky W. Taylor and her son Chad. I can’t go into the Belks store in Dunn and not miss Becky’s husband, Earl Taylor. He was the sunshine of that store.
Anniversaries seemed to be a part of every column that Wanda wrote. Happy wishes went to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Carlie Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ray Mann, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Parrish, and Mr. and Mrs. Jake Campbell.
Birthday wishes were extended to Sally Dorman, Gloria Hough, Carletta Ennis, Joyce Stewart, Mark Byrd, Hobart Lamm, Wallace Penny, Verle Flowers, Wayne Royal, Katie Dorman, Della Pleasant, Tonya Stewart, Sybil Pope, Don Ennis, and Renee Tart (Daily Record July 20, 1987).
Harold Lloyd, Harnett County Extension Agent, was in the Terry Ennis’s tobacco field as they looked over that year’s crop. The CCAC recruited 93 new members in a contest during a membership drive. The winning team members were Judy Turlington, captain of Team A and who also won a trip to the Bahamas; Mike Parham also won a trip to the Bahamas. Other members on Team A were Sue Penny, Ann Jones and C.J. Johnson. Team B members were Captain Tim Brown, M.T. Strickland (recipient of a $100 US Savings Bond), Patsy Joyner, Glenda Denton, and M.O. Phillips. An added bonus to winning was that the losing team had to serve dinner to the winning members at Pope’s Barn (Daily Record July 24, 1987).
Wanda Pollard’s Notes from Coats in the July 27, 1987 edition of the Daily Record reported sympathy of Mrs. Vicky Byrd Glover at the death of her father, Bryant Byrd of Erwin. Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Avery who lived on Route One Coats, celebrated their 55th Wedding Anniversary. They had three children,son -Ronald and daughters-Faye Dunbar and Helen Gomedella.
Joseph A. Lee, Jr. had retired from Womack Hospital at Fort Bragg, NC where he was a Pharmacist Technician for 13 years. Joe had worked for 25 years at McKnight’s Drug Co. in Coats before going to Womack.
Congratulations were sent to several couples for new babies. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coats brought home a little girl-Ashley Nicole Coats. Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Slaughter had a new baby boy while Mr. and Mrs. Richard Randall Bonner had a little girl. Mr. and Mrs. Fernie Lee were proud of their new great-grandson.
Birthday wishes went to Chester Ennis, Mark Pope, Ann Jones, Earl Barnes, Harry Denton, Walter Barnes, Rev. Ralph Byrd and Ellis Byrd. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Colville, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Coats and Mrs. Roy Langdon celebrated anniversaries. The July 31, 1987 notes printed that Kitty Willis and Howard Smith had died.
Mrs. Esther A. Cobb celebrated her birthday at the home of her daughter, Ruth Upchurch, and husband Tony Upchurch. About 34 guests attended the event for Mrs. Cobb. Would you have liked to know some of those who attended? I bet her daughter, Mrs. Clara Cobb Barbour, was there. Covid robbed us of Clara who was approaching one hundred years of age and looked almost half of that. Not only was Clara a lovely lady but one of the most talented seamstresses around. She and Wynona Ennis decorated many dozens of houses throughout Harnett and Johnston Counties with their sewing skills.
Do ladies gather today for “quilting bees”? I remember my mom going to ones at Mrs. Leva Johnson Pope’s house across the woods from our house. Leva was niece of my Grandfather Ben F. Johnson. Leva’s parents had died when she was a young girl and my grandparents –Ben and Alice -took Leva to grow up with my dad and his siblings. She would later marry Joe Ben Pope and raise some outstanding children of her own.
An old-fashioned “quilting bee” was held at the home of Mary Stevens. The ladies gathering to help quilt were Mary Langdon, Mary Denning, Florine Penny, Eula Stancil, Rebeth Mitchell, Hazel Barnes, Frances Langdon, Irene Barefoot and Lina Williams. Wonder what happened to that quilt and if Greg, Doug and Danny played under the quilt while the ladies quilted and shared neighborhood happenings?
I do know that Coats and the surrounding area have lost so many citizens to death during the pandemic. Fleming Norris was the good natured gentleman who helped out at the Miller’s NAPA store where he touched the lives of those he delivered merchandize to their homes or businesses. H.L considered Fleming a good friend and is honored to memorialize Fleming Norris with a donation to the Coats Museum.